Magnolia High DECA spirit store teaching entrepreneurship

Published 5:00 am, Monday, February 18, 2013

Katy Moss, left, and Brookelyn Felan work the cash register at The Dog Den at Magnolia High School. The store is run by DECA students and helps to teach them entreprenuership.

Katy Moss, left, and Brookelyn Felan work the cash register at The Dog Den at Magnolia High School. The store is run by DECA students and helps to teach them entreprenuership.

Photo: Lindsey Vaculin

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Brittany Hardin, left, and Laura Dobrinski restock supplies in The Dog Den at Magnolia High School.

Brittany Hardin, left, and Laura Dobrinski restock supplies in The Dog Den at Magnolia High School.

Photo: Lindsey Vaculin

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DECA students, from left, Brookelyn Felan, Brittany Hardin, teacher Brandy Weaver, Katy Moss and Laura Dobronski are learning entrepreneurship through working in The Dog Den and Magnolia High School.

DECA students, from left, Brookelyn Felan, Brittany Hardin, teacher Brandy Weaver, Katy Moss and Laura Dobronski are learning entrepreneurship through working in The Dog Den and Magnolia High School.

Photo: Lindsey Vaculin

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Laura Dobrinski, left, and Brookelyn Felan work the cash register at The Dog Den at Magnolia High School. The store is run by DECA students and helps to teach them entreprenuership.

Laura Dobrinski, left, and Brookelyn Felan work the cash register at The Dog Den at Magnolia High School. The store is run by DECA students and helps to teach them entreprenuership.

Photo: Lindsey Vaculin

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Katy Moss assists a customer at The Dog Den and Magnolia High School.

Katy Moss assists a customer at The Dog Den and Magnolia High School.

Photo: Lindsey Vaculin

Magnolia High DECA spirit store teaching entrepreneurship

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Brandy Weaver and her DECA students are spreading school spirit at Magnolia High School and gaining valuable skills along the way.

MHS’s DECA program recently opened the Dog Den to sell school spirit items and snacks to students during PLC hour at the high school.

“Our goal is to increase school spirit and give the students an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship,” Weaver, MHS marketing teacher and DECA sponsor said. “This is their first job. They get first-hand experience with inventory and sales.”

Weaver said MHS had a school store in the past, but this is the first time the DECA Club will be running it. She said that the group hopes to move to a full room next year and plans to be DECA Certified by next year. That will make them one of only two schools in Texas with that certification.

The store sells MHS hoodies, lanyards and T-shirts as well as snacks and supplies and is fully run by the DECA students including MHS senior Laura Dobrinski, who serves as store manager. Students do inventory, track sales and learn to use the cash register just like a regular store.

“I have loved putting everything together and ordering stuff and decorating,” Dobrinski said. “It is fun to hang out with all the girls.”

Dobrinski said she had learned how to do purchase orders and inventory and she has enjoyed learning what people like and how to please the store’s customers. They group even has a suggestions box for customers to make recommendations on what they would like to see in the store.

“We have learned a lot,” she said. “We are learning how to make a profit by deducting what we spend from what we are making.”

Weaver said the funds from the store go towards funding for travel to state competitions.

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A group of six students work in the store on a rotating schedule. The students are Brookelyn Felan, Katy Moss, Dobronski, Amber Coronel, Ashlie Schwinn, and Brittany Hardin.